Bigfoot Society - South Carolina Hunter Shares His Scoped 1997 Sasquatch Sighting | Member's Only Episode A28

Episode Date: February 28, 2026

In this special members preview episode, we explore powerful firsthand accounts from three individuals whose experiences stretch across Michigan, Kentucky, and South Carolina. Each witness shares deeply personal encounters that have stayed with them for decades, offering vivid glimpses into moments that changed how they view the woods forever.From the forests near Atlanta in Montmorency County, Michigan, one man reflects on a 1986 mushroom hunting trip that turned into an unforgettable encounter near a quiet creek. What began as a peaceful afternoon quickly became something far more profound, leaving him and his family questioning what they had witnessed.In Kentucky, a childhood turkey hunt along the Nolin River near Bear Creek became a moment that still stands crystal clear in memory. A presence only feet away. A sound that has never been forgotten. A split second that continues to echo years later.And in South Carolina, a lifelong outdoorsman shares experiences that began on his family’s sprawling rural property in the 1970s and followed him into adulthood. A later hunting trip near Interstate 26 in Newberry County would deliver a sighting through a rifle scope that permanently altered his relationship with the outdoors.These accounts are thoughtful, detailed, and grounded in decades of lived experience. This preview only scratches the surface of what’s shared in the full episode.Note: To get this full episode (and tomorrow's episode) early and ad-free then become a supporting member over at https://www.bigfootsocietypodcast.com OR become a Youtube member by tapping the JOIN button.

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So you'll hear a little bit about it in the preview that is coming next. But if you want to hear the whole thing, feel free to become a supporting Bigfoot Society member by going to bigfoot society podcast.com and clicking on the members login area. Or you can click the join button for those of you who are over on YouTube. Again, thank you so much for listening to the podcast and enjoy this preview. Always read these screams. Always heard these screams. It sounds like a woman being beat to death is, I mean, we've heard that literally our whole, you know, Our family told that story forever. We always, when we killed the hogs in the spring, I mean, in the fall,

dump the guts of stuff down in a pile down at the edge of the woods. I'll never question why we did it. We just did it. That was just a thing. Well, we actually saw a creature, I'm going to say Bigfoot. There's no other way to say it. Step into the hog pen one time. pick up a piglet because that was all that was left the sal couldn't be picked up she was 800 pounds easy

he picked up a piglet with one hand stepped over the pence and walked away scared me so much i couldn't see straight and i was with three of my cousins when it happened uh one of them i can call right now and get on the phone he'll tell you about it and then so we grew up hearing that believing it we tried to find tracks and things we never found things we started gifting we started leaving out toys and balls and things like that and they all disappeared the only thing we've ever found is what you would consider re-gifting maybe was a couple of feathers it stood up and screamed and all of a sudden I turned to my right and my cousins and everybody were like

Bob watch out and I looked and there was two other ones that weren't as big, like a mom and a baby, like a smaller one, like a young one. And he screamed, we ran to the truck and took off. Oh, wow. My goodness. So, so that, how long do you think you had eyes on him for? About 20 minutes. 20 minutes.

Holy Mac, okay, I stopped. Because I was scared. I thought it was going to attack me. I was walking backwards. slowly at first and then my cousin's like run so we ran we didn't know what to do okay so you were able to look at him for 20 minutes there's it sounds like there's a bigger one one that was a lot smaller and then one that was more female is that correct yeah they were about like i'd say about 75 yards okay so that's approximately the length of three tennis courts for right people listening

Yeah, just smaller than a football field. Gotcha. The bigger one, how tall would you say he probably was? Oh, he was at least 10 foot tall. He was huge. Yeah, that's what scared us, the biggest, because it was so big. We'd never seen anything. At first I thought it was a bear.

Because we got a lot of bear. Like a bear stood up? Yeah. What was the thing that tipped you off that it wasn't a bear then? How big it was and what it didn't look like a bear. At first, we thought it was a bear because of how hairy it was. Because we were at a distance. Okay.

Were you able to see any details about the face of any of them? Yeah, it looked more human than a bear. That's why we were, like, shocked. because we knew what bear looked like. Sure. What specific details looked more human like on the face? It was like its nose, his eyes and everything. Gotcha.

Gotcha. And then he had, you could see his hands. He hit his hand when he stood up and everything. You could see his hands look more human than like a pall or anything like that. Okay. How were the, how was the, uh, the female and the, the young one interacting? Do you remember anything about that? They were just standing there. We weren't there that long. Right. You said you were there, you were able to see them for 20 minutes, correct? Mm-hmm. Yeah, they just stood off to their, like I said, they were off to the side. Like I said, we were away. We were up on one hill and they were up by the creek down.

Okay. How tall would you say the little one was? I'd say probably about, well, I'm 5'9 and it was shorter than me, so probably about four something. Okay. And the female? It was small. His mom picked it up. Oh, okay. So the mom actually picked it up the four foot. Okay. Gotcha. How did it get on its back or was it carrying in its arms or what would you say?

I don't know. We took off running as soon as like everything happened real fast. Like after, sure. We sat there for 20 minutes. We were like doing like a stair down at first because we just couldn't believe what we seen. and we just rose pretty much. Absolutely. And just stared and then just started back in up. Because we had to go back up a hill. We weren't like on flat ground. We were on like a hilly area at the time.

Were there any weird smells or anything in the area when you were sitting there? No, because we were in a middle of a mushroom patch. Mostly we could smell with mushrooms. I mean, nature. You could smell dirt, you know, but you smell natures. Gotcha. Did they seem to be making any noise or communicating to each other at all? Yeah, he, like, made noise to her.

Can you describe what that was like? No, it was a long time ago. Okay. It was more like a, like a scream. like to get her attention, like kind of thing. Like it was just like a weird, because we come up over a hill and come down, and then we just seen it.

And then we got out of there. Have you seen any drawings or anything over the years that looked like what you saw that day? Yeah, that's why I believed in it because the first time I seen a drawing, I was like, we seen one of them. And people always thought I was crazy. So I was like, believe what you want.

I know what's true. I had witnesses. I put the rifle on. I'm shooting a 308 with a 6x4 by a 50 scope on it. Okay, I can tell you anything you want to know about the creature. I couldn't pull the trigger. It looked too much like a purse. person. Not exactly. You know what I mean? It's just it couldn't, it wasn't a bear. I know that. I've seen bear. We have black bear here. I just couldn't do it. That's wild. Yeah. So how far away were you estimated? 162 and a half yards with a range finder. 652 yards. Okay. So, but I mean, you could see with that, you could see extreme detail.

I shoot consistently at 1,200 yards. Okay. If I told you the power of my scope. How tall would you estimate that it was? At least, at least nine foot. And the reason I'm saying that is we have spindly pines in the south. There's no branches that come off of them until they get to probably about 20 feet. You know what I'm saying?

I don't know if you're really accustomed to kind of what I call whip pines. They blow over all the time. But there's no real reference point because where we were, it's a planted field. But just by looking at it versus the trees around it, it's got to be that tall. We got after it was all over, I got down and called in and we walked over there. And we looked at the, we looked for tracks, everything. I did not find tracks. And it's a dry.

It was a very, very dry field. You have to understand. I mean, that's why we were hunting it, because we could see deer prints. I can track. I've done it all my life. I'm 56 years old and hunted for almost 50 years, you know. And to be honest with you, last time I ever took a rifle into the woods. Oh, wow.

I switched to bow hunting after that. I only take one deer a year now. Okay. Oh, my goodness. So it affected just something something strong. Yeah, absolutely. I knew right then that wasn't an animal. I mean, I knew what's an animal and it's encrypted, blah, blah, blah.

If you go back and look at Belgium's theories of the, you know, displacement versus the Osterpithecus, I don't know, Gigantipithecus versus Osterpithecus versus, what is it, Homo-Hidalvergansus, it all makes sense to me now. I just ain't shooting one, period, in the story. Yeah, absolutely. Man, I got questions for you. What was the year again on this, approximately year? 1997. Okay, thank you. So how long did you have eyes on it through the scope, do you think?

Oh, not more than, not less than 25 seconds. It was a long time. I could have put one through it eye. Oh, sure, yeah, especially with that kind of, you know, scope and being able to be able to be able to be able to be. to look at it. What kind of activity were you watching it do during the 25 seconds? It was the weirdest thing was and this is not a, this is what really blew my mind. It was just the most weird thing to me is it when it walked out. It walked out of the woods and it crossed. It literally cut the corner in the field, stopped, picked up something, walked over to the edge of the woods, pulled up a small tree and walked on. I'm not joking. It literally pulled up a small tree. It wasn't.

like a green tree it was like a like a tall thin tree very few branches okay so then it keeps on walking and it's holding this small tree and it disappears into the woods because literally once it gets back into the woods it's all cross do you when they forest it they cross plant so it makes it you got a row one way then there's a space and then there's a row in the middle there's a space so you technically make a look you're looking into a forest again once they replant clear-cut land so you can't really see it or you can see pieces moving but i lost it quickly not going to lie about right right right right absolutely um what color was it red brown more red than brown but red brown

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